Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-03-26
EASTERN AND FOREIGN NEWS.

birth to son.
During he year 1886 thirty.six telegraph
offices were opened in China.
Assaults on Cinnamon are frequent in Bah !
tmore and they generally 60 unpunshed.
A remarkable fall of snow covers nearly
all England, blocking the roads in many
places.
The golden quartz Of the Transvaal gold
fields is yielding ninety ounces OF goldto the
ton, if consular reports are correct.
The President has appointed Thomas Hay.
den United States District Attorney for Ne.
vada.
The Prohibitionists of Mississippi have
added twelve counties to the dry list the
past year.
A new repeating rifle, the invention Of a
blind man, has been submitted to the mill.
tary authorities in London.
Oil lamps in cars have been discarded on
the London roads for several years. and now
gas is giving place to electricity.
A young woman of Detroit, who recently
inherited Sage, 900, has refused thirty offers
of marriage in the last three months.
The failure of the Chinese Bank at Hong
kong was speedily followed by the destruc-
ton of the building and papers by the
creditors.
Col. Lamont says President Cleveland 10
in good condition and no fears need be ex.
pressed for his health. He takes sufficient
exercise.
Eighty Chinese aciors are to be taken to
New York TO give Eastern people an idea of
Oriental dramas accompanied with choice
Chinese music.
The widow Of Garibaldi lives in a quiet
street Of Turin, the walls Of her little parlor
covered with flags, medals and other memen-
toes of the dead heros
A New York special says: It is asserted
on good authority that Mrs. Langtry and
Freddie Gebhardt will be married as soon as
the legal impediments are removed.
Instructions have been Used to the Assist
ant Treasurers at New York, Philadelphia
and Boston to receive deposits Of 81 and So
certificates, and to resume the issue of those
notes.
An Italian named Franzini was arrested en-
the charge of numbering Mrs. Regnaul. and
her maid, in Paris. A quantity of bloody
clothing was found in his apartments. Fran.
zini confessed the crime.
A SherifFs posse at Mount Meigs, Ala,
killed James Sidney and his two stepsons,
all colored, who had refused to surrender
and had barricaded themselves in their house.
The Sidneys were bad lot.
Two Russians employed as navvies on the
Austrian Strategic Railway to the Russian'
frontier were recently arrested as spies. Two
hundred roubles and inaammatory leaflets
printed in Russia were found upon them.
At the bridge OF Weir, Scotland. an iron
ship OF two hundred tons has been built,
complete in every respect as sea-going yes.
sell, but destined TO be kept on land for
training the inmates OF an Orphans Home in
seamanship.
Flour was quoted recently at Fort Benton,
NJ. T., at $40 sack, on account of the
snow blockade of the railroads. Coal was
quoted at $50 to 500 per ton; green willow
wood at s7o per cord, and potatoes not TO be
had at any price.
The issue of standard silver dollars from
the mints during the week ended March 10Th
was s4o6, sos; during the corresponding
period Of last year. $4I6,45o. The ship.
ments Of fractional silver coin since March
Ist amounted to Ss32,o3S.
A German lady Of Bridgeport, Conn.,, gave
birth recently to male infant which has in
place of the nose short trunk; the mouth
and lips protruding like those of an elephant.
The child weighs about nine pounds and can
be fed only with spoon.
The money appropriated for the benefit Of
the Rock Springs sufferers will be turned over
to the Chinese Government, and upon the
Minister at Washington as the legal repre-
sentative Of China will probably divolve the
duty Of expending the sum appropriated.
Reports come from Russia that the best
qualities of tobacco grown in Europe are
those produced in the south Of Russia. and
that only the choicest Turkish tobacco is su.
perior to that grown in the southern parts Of
the Crimea. Great efforts will therefore be
made to push the Russian tobacco into foreign
markets.
1t is stated that immense quantities OF hu.
man hair are lying in London warehouses un-
saleable in consequence Of the recent changes